Patents by Inventor Boris Dimitrov Stoicov

Boris Dimitrov Stoicov has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Methods and apparatus to migrate physical server hosts between virtual standard switches and virtual distributed switches in a network
    Patent number: 11343141
    Abstract: Disclosed examples include determining that a user-approved migration plan satisfies a proposed migration plan, the proposed migration plan to configure a virtual distributed switch using network configuration settings of a virtual standard switch corresponding to first physical network interface cards, the user-approved migration plan based on a user-selection responsive to the proposed migration plan; creating the virtual distributed switch in a first host and a second host in response to the user-approved migration plan satisfying the proposed migration plan; and configuring the virtual distributed switch based on the network configuration settings of the virtual standard switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Boris Dimitrov Stoicov, Christian Dickmann
  • METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MIGRATE PHYSICAL SERVER HOSTS BETWEEN VIRTUAL STANDARD SWITCHES AND VIRTUAL DISTRIBUTED SWITCHES IN A NETWORK
    Publication number: 20210250234
    Abstract: Disclosed examples include determining that a user-approved migration plan satisfies a proposed migration plan, the proposed migration plan to configure a virtual distributed switch using network configuration settings of a virtual standard switch corresponding to first physical network interface cards, the user-approved migration plan based on a user-selection responsive to the proposed migration plan; creating the virtual distributed switch in a first host and a second host in response to the user-approved migration plan satisfying the proposed migration plan; and configuring the virtual distributed switch based on the network configuration settings of the virtual standard switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Boris Dimitrov Stoicov, Christian Dickmann
  • Methods and apparatus to migrate physical server hosts between virtual standard switches and virtual distributed switches in a network
    Patent number: 11012297
    Abstract: An example apparatus to migrate a physical server host from a virtual standard switch to a virtual distributed switch includes: a user input interface to receive a user-selection of first physical network interface cards of a first physical server host to migrate from the virtual standard switch to the virtual distributed switch; a configurator to generate a first migration plan to configure the virtual distributed switch using network configuration settings of the virtual standard switch corresponding to the first physical network interface cards; and a virtual distributed switch creator to, based on a user-selection to proceed with the migration from the virtual standard switch to the virtual distributed switch, create the virtual distributed switch in the first physical server host and a second physical server host, the configurator to configure the network configuration settings of the virtual standard switch in the virtual distributed switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Boris Dimitrov Stoicov, Christian Dickmann
  • METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MIGRATE PHYSICAL SERVER HOSTS BETWEEN VIRTUAL STANDARD SWITCHES AND VIRTUAL DISTRIBUTED SWITCHES IN A NETWORK
    Publication number: 20190319837
    Abstract: An example apparatus to migrate a physical server host from a virtual standard switch to a virtual distributed switch includes: a user input interface to receive a user-selection of first physical network interface cards of a first physical server host to migrate from the virtual standard switch to the virtual distributed switch; a configurator to generate a first migration plan to configure the virtual distributed switch using network configuration settings of the virtual standard switch corresponding to the first physical network interface cards; and a virtual distributed switch creator to, based on a user-selection to proceed with the migration from the virtual standard switch to the virtual distributed switch, create the virtual distributed switch in the first physical server host and a second physical server host, the configurator to configure the network configuration settings of the virtual standard switch in the virtual distributed switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Boris Dimitrov Stoicov, Christian Dickmann